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[Tutorials] How to set up a horizontal cluster for a Maximo sandbox using WebSphere Application Server 7

[Tutorials] How to set up a horizontal cluster for a Maximo sandbox using WebSphere Application Server 7

Introduction

As described in WebSphere Application Server Information Center: “Clusters are groups of servers that are managed together and participate in workload management. A cluster can contain nodes or individual application servers. Clusters are responsible for balancing workload among servers. Servers that are a part of a cluster are called cluster members. When you install an application on a cluster, the application is automatically installed on each cluster member. You can configure a cluster to provide workload balancing with service integration or with message driven beans in the application server.”

There are two types of clustering: horizontal and vertical. Both of them can be configured in different ways. This document is a guide that shows the easiest version of a horizontal cluster for a Maximo sandbox using WebSphere Application Server 7 (WAS).

Benefits of a horizontal cluster environment:

High availability;

Load balance;

Performance improvement.

Pre-requirements

This tutorial is based on WebSphere Application Server 7 and Maximo 7.5. Some specifics steps may differ from version to version, but the overall process is the same.

The user required to execute this tutorial must have administrative privileges in WAS to create nodes, clusters, start and stop servers, among other things.

To simplify the configuration of the horizontal cluster provided by this guide, no directory information services (LDAP), such as IBM Tivoli Directory Server or Microsoft Active Directory, were installed or configured.

It is also necessary to have at least two machines for the horizontal cluster. One of them must have Maximo successfully deployed. The other must have only an Application Server installed, with no Deployment Manager (DM). In order to improve performance of your environment, you may install the database or deployment management in separate machines.

The standalone Application Server that you want to federate must be up and running before starting this guide.

After executing this guide, you should have a horizontal cluster environment similar to the image below:

Note:This guide requires readers to
have basic WAS and Maximo platform knowledge.

Adding a node

1. Login to the WAS admin console as wasadmin (Maximo server / WAS with DM).

2. Navigate to System administration > Nodes.

3. Click Add Node.

4. Select Managed Node.

5. Click Next.

6. On the next page, provide all the information about the Node you want to federate:

7. Click OK.

8. On the next page, it will give an option to run the node as a Windows Service. Do not select this option and click OK.

9. The creation node process will start and the logs will be displayed.

10. Once the process has finished, you should see two nodes: one from cell 1 and another for cell 2 that you have just added.

11. If the nodes are not synchronized, select nodes 1 and 2 and click Synchronize.

12. At this point, you will no longer be able to login to WAS from cell 2 since it is now managed by the Deployment Manager.